Entropy is a “website featuring literary & non-literary content. A website that seeks to engage with the literary community, that becomes its own community, and creates a space for literary & non-literary ideas.” They recently posted an article on where to submit December through February. Click here to read the […]
Empty Mirror is an online literary and arts magazine established in 2000 that publishes poetry, essays on literary or art-related topics, criticism, personal essays, articles, features, book reviews, interviews, and art. While their interests are broad, they also have special interests in the Beat Generation and Surrealism. I wondered how […]
Outlook Springs is a fairly new bi-annual, print and online literary journal “transmitted from the town of Outlook Springs, New Hampshire, which may or may not exist in one or more alternate dimensions.” They don’t charge submission fees and they pay their contributors, $25 fiction/non-fiction and $10 per poem + a contributor […]
The literary magazines/journals listed below all offer some form of payment, do not charge submission/reading fees, take online submissions, and have submission deadlines from December 15, 2018 – January 15, 2019. This list focuses on poetry submissions, but most lit mags accept prose and art as well. The […]
I’m so grateful of the reading and work that went into this in depth and thoughtful review of my chapbook Footnote by Deborah Hauser published by Stirring, one of the oldest continuously publishing journals on the internet. And they are always open for submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. A […]
So to Speak is a feminist literary journal and their blog is currently accepting entries for their contest, including: visual art, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Judgesare Erin Silver (visual art), Pam Houston (fiction), Sandy Allen (nonfiction), and Victoria Chang (poetry). Winners will be awarded an honorarium, publication in our 2019 […]
Noctua Review is the annual art and literary magazine produced by the Southern Connecticut State University MFA program. It was the brain child of Graduate Student (now Professor) Lois Lake Church and launched its inaugural issue in 2008. They don't have a theme this year; instead, they are asking for […]
Bold + Italic is a new international online literary magazine based in India. You can read their first two issues to get a feel for the type of work they accept. I wondered how and why this lit mag came to be, so I asked co-founder Jayant Kashyap. […]
This list from Authors Publish is a great place to start if you’re looking for paying markets. Have I submitted to some of these? Yes. Have I been rejected? Of course. You’ve probably heard the stories of writers who kept all their rejection letters from coveted magazines and […]
If you’re not already familiar with Clifford Garstang‘s annual literary magazine rankings or you’ve forgotten to check them out for a while, here’s a reminder to how handy they are! Every year Garstang ranks lit mags based on Pushcart Prize anthology. He creates rankings for the three main […]
